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I'm a liberal and I don't want that. I want income tax on the very rich (individuals) raised and all the loopholes they use to avoid paying for their share of the infrastructure they used to make their money, done away with.

What makes you think the rich avoid paying taxes? Even the IRS states that the top 400 taxpayers are paying an average effective federal income tax rate that's 3+ times the effective federal income tax rate the middle class pays:

Not that surprising. Many said exactly what they would do with the money before the tax cut. Stock buy backs and payments to stake holders.

Corps exist to pay only for stake holders and C level execs.

The tax cuts went into effect 1/2018.
So they would not be realized until taxes were filed in 2019 right ?

If Pfizer announced layoffs 1/2018 that means it had been decided and planned in 2017.
I don't see the connection.

AT&T had a big layoff. That was in the area of DirecTV technicians. Have you seen the numbers for DirecTV lately ? They lost 300,000 subscribers at that time. Wouldn't that result in a surplus of workers ?

I'm not going through each and every one but I have learned that media do not do their jobs anymore to present OBJECTIVE material.

Regarding stock buyback. Pfizer announced 2/17 their buyback..well before those tax cuts.
AT&T has been doing quarterly stock buybacks for over a decade now.

Notice how so many liberals are so up in arms over the cost of Chinese goods going up and the affect on the cost to consumers; meanwhile, most of them want to increase corporate taxes on US companies which will increase the cost to American consumers.

TDS prevents rational thought.

Fake News. Where is your evidence that "most of them want to increase corporate taxes...."

What is a balanced budget except an excuse to rob and redistribute equal amounts?

And what is wrong with that? If you want "rob" (taxes) to be zero, you'll have to make "redistribute" (spending) also zero. If you can convince the Congress and the American people to cut out all spending, you can have your zero taxes. Until then, we ought to pay for what we've bought, instead of sticking our kids with the bill.

Notice how so many conservatives are so up in arms over high corporate taxes and their affect on the cost to consumers; meanwhile, most of them want to increase Chinese tariffs on US importers which will increase the cost to American consumers.

Cult 45-ism prevents rational thought.

Only difference is that President Trump's trade war isn't permanent and is meant to ultimately lead to low to no taxes

On the other hand, the left wants to raise taxes on corporations permanently and then (in their Trump Deranged manner) hilariously complains about the supposed (I write "supposed" as China has been eating the tariffs costs, hence we have't been prices increase) impact of the tariffs on the price of goods. Do the Dems think that corporations will NOT pass on corporate tax increases to the consumer?

Well, every Democrat in Congress voted against reducing corporate taxes. Do you need more proof than that?

Good grief.

That was part of a package that also reduce personal income taxes for the wealthy, and provided loopholes for people like hedge fund operators. A clean corporate tax cut should be revenue neutral, like the one proposed by President Obama in 2012:

"True to this year's State of the Union address, the Obama Administration released a proposal Wednesday that seeks to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent while eliminating many loopholes and broadening the base....The President also outlines the global minimum tax on multinationalsí foreign earnings and remove deductions for moving operations abroad," (Committee for a Responsible Budget, 2012)

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